What prods our feminist foremothers into the light of reappraisal? The condition of women in the world is a changing state of affairs, except of course, depressingly, in all the ways it isn’t.

Friedan’s Jewish identity at first took a backseat to her battle for women’s rights but eventually found a stage at the center of her public life, a new biography shows. (JTA) — When Betty Friedan ...

QUESTION: Betty, let's begin with the obvious time and place, your birth. Where are you from? BETTY FRIEDAN: I was born and grew up in Peoria, Illinois, which you might say is the middle of the middle ...

Betty Friedan, author of "The Feminine Mystique" and the "mother of the modern women's movement" has died at age 85. Two friends recall a courageous and intemperate leader who roused a generation of ...

Writer and activist Betty Friedan was born Feb. 4, 1921. For this painting in the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery collection, artist Alice Matzkin visited Friedan’s home hoping to have one ...

On this episode of The Time of Monsters, Moira Donegan on lessons from the life of a feminist titan. Jeet Heer Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political talk without the boring parts, ...

“Groundbreaking.” “A landmark.” “A classic.” Those are the words now commonly used to describe Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique,” first published in 1963. Friedan “pulled the trigger on history, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tracey Ullman, left, as Betty Friedan in "Mrs. America," and the real Betty Friedan in 1970. (Sabrina Lantos / FX, left; ...

BETTY FRIEDAN: I was born and grew up in Peoria, Illinois, which you might say is the middle of the middle of America, what used to be a synonym almost: "hick," "hayseed" or "will it play in Peoria".

(JTA) — When Betty Friedan published “The Feminine Mystique” in 1963, she set fire to a simmering discontent among millions of American women, blowing up the myth that feminine fulfillment began and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What prods our feminist foremothers into the light of reappraisal? The condition of women in the world is a changing state of ...

When Betty Friedan published “The Feminine Mystique” in 1963, she set fire to a simmering discontent among millions of American women, blowing up the myth that feminine fulfillment began and ended ...